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8 PLUME the singles a novel meredith Goldstein Take a picture of this QR code with your smartphone to visit Meredith Goldstein’s website. m ay • P l u m e ■■ Meredith Goldstein’s Boston Globe column, “Love Letters,” receives nearly 1 million page views every month and 1,500 reader comments a day ■■ Film rights sold to actress Jami Gertz’s production company 978-0-452-29805-7 • U.S. $15.00 / $16.00 CAN. Fiction 5 5/16” x 8” • 256 pages Rights: W00 First serial, Audio: Plume Agent: The Kneerim & Williams Agency Pub History: A Plume Original Also available as an e-book On Sale: 4/24/12 ■■Author Appearances ■■National Print Review and Feature Attention ■■Online Reviews and Features ■■Online Promotions ■■Reading Group Guide Online ■■www.meredithgoldstein.com ■■Twitter: @MeredithGoldste meredith goldstein is an advice columnist and entertainment reporter for The Boston Globe. in addition to “love letters,” she cowrites the paper’s society column, “names.” she lives in boston. plume Original Photo © Aram Boghosian
“The Singles skew everything” in a comedic, affecting wedding novel in which neither bride nor groom but five solo guests take center stage. Take an instantly recognizable social dilemma—attending a wedding alone—add a good laugh (and maybe a cry), and meet The Singles, the warm and witty debut by Boston Globe “Love Letters” columnist, Meredith Goldstein. Beth “Bee” Evans’s first vow as a bride is that everyone on her list be invited to bring a guest to her lavish Chesapeake Bay nuptials. When Hannah, Vicki, Rob, Joe, and Nancy one by one decline Bee’s generous offer, the frustrated bride dubs them the “Singles,” adrift on her seating chart as well as in life. The motivations—from bad breakups to career crises to misplaced nostalgia—behind their collective decision set in motion a rollicking, romantic, reflective tale of adulthood, with all its promise and heartbreak. Alone together, the “Singles” take their next precarious yet inspiring steps along life’s unpredictable path. It would have been acceptable in a recession for Bee to invite singles to the wedding without a plus-one, but Bee wanted every guest to have the option of bringing a companion. But the Singles had chosen to come alone, and Bee just couldn’t understand it. When she was a Single, Bee resented brides who didn’t give her a plus-one simply because she didn’t have a serious boyfriend. Bee vowed that when she got married, she’d grant plus-ones to everyone. No one would have to be alone. Almost everyone on the invite list had taken Bee up on her offer. Except for the Singles, who, in Bee’s opinion, were adrift not only on her dry-erase board but also in life. suGGesteD oRDeR m ay • P l u m e 9 PLUME
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